Jewish Americanand Holocaust Literature

Representation in the Postmodern World

Edited byAlan L. Berger

andGloria L. Cronin

State University of New York Press

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1Alan L. BergerGloria L. Cronin

PART ONE: HOLOCAUST LITERATURE

1. Hidden Children: The Literature of Hiding 13Alan L. Berger

2. An Eye on a Scrap of the World:Ida Fink's Hidden Witnesses 31

Ellen S. Fine

3. Jerzy Kosinski: Did He or Didn't He? 43Harry James Cargas

4. By the Light of Darkness: Six Major EuropeanWriters Who Experienced the Holocaust 57

Hugh Nissenson

5. Memory and Collective Identity: NarrativeStrategies Against Forgetting in ContemporaryLiterary Responses to the Holocaust 77

Gerhard Bach

6. The Rendition of Memory in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl 93Marianne M. Friedrich

7. A Speck of Dust Blown by the Wind Across Landand Desert: Images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann,Singer, and Appelfeld 103

Gila Safran Naveh

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8. Writing to Break the Frozen Seas Within:The Power of Fiction in the Writings of

i Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein .115Susan E. Nowak

9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9111 World 125Thane Rosenbaum

PART TWO: JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE

JO. Africanity and the Collapse of AmericanCulture in the Novels of Saul Bellow 139

Gloria L. Cronin

11. The Jewish Journey of Saul Bellow:From Secular Satirist to Spiritual Seeker 157

Sarah Blacher Cohen

12. Philip Roth and Jewish AmericanLiterature at the Millennium 167

Bonnie Lyons

13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred Neshamas 179Evelyn Avery

14. Myth and Addiction in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple 185Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist

15. Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women inTwentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction:Through a Male Lens/Through a Female Lens 201

S. Lillian Kremer

16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writersand the Man in the Wrong Clothes 223

Miriyam Glazer

17. Restorying Jewish Mothers 235

Janet Burstein

Contributors 243

Index 249